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You can throw statistics upon statistics and they will mean nothing without a comparison point, control group, or null hypothesis.

Yeah. I agree.

Jill Stein? Unless I’m wrong. It’s nuanced, but her position is to stop the genocide.

Honest question. What do you do for someone who’s sole issue right now is to stop the genocide? There’s only one candidate going for that afaik, and it’s not Harris or Trump.

Always has been.

This doesn’t make that behavior any less scummy, but have you tried using any Google website on a browser that isn’t chrome?

I didn’t see this one in the list, but UNN newscast from Starcraft 2 is one of my favorites! Particularly Donny Vermillion.

Sure, the CDC, the NIH and the WHO are some sources. But what about a source that has information about what people are encountering?

Ok, where do I get distilled news and incidents regarding covid and other infectious diseases/viruses spreading?

Raise as in how you raise a wine glass to drink from it afterwards.

It was definitely a loaded or insincere question. The use of “you would” instead of “would you” suggests that the person who is asking this question has already made up their mind about OP’s opinion. And no, I don’t think that was a typo, a Freudian slip maybe, but not a typo.

https://xkcd.com/1814/

This is the way.

That’s fair. Personally in the 4 years he was president I was terrified he would come out with something that would force me out of my job and thus out of the country. (and he nearly did, I wasn’t allowed to work for 3 months at one point.)

Not to mention that these pro-Trumpers can’t even vote.

The answer to “is it part of the activityPub spec?” is more often than not a strong No.

That’s the fun part about being in a place where you can hold a discussion. Some people don’t agree with you, but they can still see the benefits of the option you are talking about or even agree that they are a great solution for now.

The attacks by Iranian backed Hamas against Israel. Sources:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/israel-hamas/2024/01/30/iran-backed-groups-middle-east/72405584007/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_support_for_Hamas

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-10-10-23/h_8c4e2392d4398a8af723e09392db4494

Disclaimer: I’m not stating support for one group or another, but the truth is necessary for a good opinion and discussion .

Found the Microsoft employee.

I don’t have a great solution for this particular problem.

However any solution that you come up with has to be resilient enough that the nodes that execute such scenario are always available.

You don’t just want a system with high availability, you want a system that will stand the test of time. For example, it might trigger 30 or 50 years from now. You might not want to use AWS or Google or Azure or any sort of system like that. They don’t seem to keep their solutions available for that long. So you’ll need to host something yourself and make sure it’s resilient to a multitude of scenarios that might bring the “back end” down.

You’d also need to set-up some sort of test for the system to make sure it’s still running and it’ll do what you want it to. Maybe it runs every 3 months or so like a fire system drill.

Honestly the trigger can be something as simple as you hitting a button connected to your system every week with a way for it to ping and prompt you to do it you if you haven’t “reset” the counter in a timely fashion.

I would probably do something like that with a weekly cadence and a whole other week to make sure I don’t miss the reset.

You probably also want to be able to set it to different modes if you think you will be away for a while. Like a vacation mode or oh shit I’m in the hospital mode.

Additionally, I also wouldn’t be as fatalistic as sending goodbyes to everyone. I would use it more as a system to sound an alarm that I’m not okay and something has happened to me and communicate that with people who could do something about it. Like verify if I’m alive or not, or contact local authorities to post a missing persons report.

This same system of notifying could also allow closer people to me to trigger an “oh shit I’m dead mode” which would then execute whatever is in that idea of yours.